Happy New Year!
As promised in my December column, a few of our reader favorites from 2021 were The Push by Ashley Audrain, The Rainbow by Carly Schabowski, Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell, and Intimacies by Katie Kitamura.
To celebrate a new year of fantastic books, I want to share my current list of anticipated 2022 releases. I hope you will find something that speaks to you.
- Fiona and Jane by Jean Chen Ho, January 4th
- Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez, January 4th
- Waking Romeo by Kathryn Barker, January 4th
- I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home by Jami Attenberg, January 11th
- To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara, January 11th
- Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science by Jessica Hernandez, January 18th
- How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu, January 18th
- South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry, January 25th
- Moon Witch, Spider King by Marlon James, February 15th
- In Sensorium: Notes for My People by Tanaïs, February 22nd
- Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative by Melissa Febos, March 15th
- In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing by Elena Ferrante, March 15th
- Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel, April 5th
- Wired for Love: A Neuroscientist’s Journey Through Romance, Loss, and the Essence of Human Connection by Stephanie Cacioppo, April 5th
- Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart, April 5th
- Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong, April 5th
- Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley, May 24th
- Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks by Patrick Radden Keefe June 28th
- The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir by Ingrid Rojas Contreras, July 12th
Happy Reading!
Read more in the January 8, 2022 issue of The Indepedent
